It means “The voice of the people is the voice of god”.
I know, but we could interpret it that way,
Neither of the numbers is the password
I’ve gone from hopeful believer to apathetic cynic. I think we need a spark of life 
The second number is a valid UK phone number, for this company and I suspect that’s entirely irrelevant.
With this information is easier to interpret what it is. It’s an order from that webpage. Whoever printed it was logged as Admin. Country: United Kingdom, theres also a city and more information but completely illegible. It’s dated 15/03/2008. It’s nigh impossible to read, but there seems to be prices on the order, the pound symbol can be distinguished. So, did he work there? Why put that on the board? It doesn’t make any sense to me.
There’s also a paper from a Saudi Arabia company, and some schematics to build something, it starts with something like this: “It’s important that you wield your frame…”, but it is also pretty difficult to read, and I can’t find the texture files of any of the papers on that board.
It appears to be an invoice for an order of aluminum pipe, to be sent to a United Arab Emirates company from a Malaysian company. Both of these companies were involved in a nuclear proliferation scandal, where they were part of a nuclear smuggling ring masterminded by a Pakistani nuclear scientist, selling nuclear secrets and supplies to Iran and Libya.
materials\models\props_office\noticeboard01.vtf.
I’m stupid, I opened it and didn’t saw the papers on the right. Well, it’s an easter egg then, a weird one but an easter egg nevertheless.
So, nothing to do with the ARG. Still, an iranian domain redirects to the bmrf.us, which might or might not be ARG related.
AND LOOK! If you read the first capital letter of the post its from bottom to top it spells POT OD. And thus the ARG ends, the whole story is that Gordon Freeman has taken too much pot, that explains Half Life, he’s imagining the whole thing and the pizzas are there because he’s really hungry due to the pot. D:
I can’t be sure, but at this point, I feel that the taco shack and everything in it are nothing but easter eggs. However, the number three seems to be a recurring theme there (three tacos on a plate, three soda cans in a trash can, three plates on a table, etc.). It’s tempting to take that as yet another piece of evidence supporting the TripleDES (3DES) cipher idea, though it might just be coincidence.
At this point I don’t know what to think, as 0418 he said that the first puzzles were meant to test the players abilities. He also said that it would not make sense that the puzzles depended upon a release way down the line, so it would be safe to assume that it is solvable before Xen is released.
You did so well that he now thinks that the people here is better than the NSA at decoding. But after all this time one would expect at least another clue. I tried more than 120 passwords, words on the whiteboard, things related to quantum mechanics, AI, homomorphic encryption… What is left to try? If this is ever solved, for an encore, we should go and solve the fourth part of Kryptos 
[Text removed to prevent tangents. Thanks, CPU!]
By the way, is the ARG Wiki kept up to date (and accurate)? I’ve been looking at it a bit, but want to make sure I’m not looking at old news.
What if the solution is really “simple”, that the key is “simply” the full expansion of the HALOS name, but no one has got it right yet, or even tried using that as a key/passphrase?
Recently, something reminded me of another (in)famous A.I.: SHODAN, which is an acronym for Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network. That made me think about HALOS and what it might stand for, if it’s an acronym. It occurred to me that I haven’t really made an effort to guess what it might be and try that as a key/passphrase (except for the most obvious ones). Has anyone else tried?
The more I think about it, the more things I find that seem to point in that direction:
A thing that struck me about the LOL Can/Tau Cannon message was this: “L#### O####### L######## Can####”. Only the first letters in each word are visible, which made us fill in the missing letters to get “Lepton Optronic Linearity Cannon”. Could this be a hint telling us to do something similar with something else, like HALOS for example?
Recently, there was some talk about acronyms following stormseeker’s mysterious “I… C an’t S trictly M emorise that, no >_>.” post on his Steam profile. And then he posted the “CSM Cyberdyne Systems Model (Terminator). I like that one best, it seems to suit the theme.” comment. Was stormseeker trying to make a point about acronyms?
stormseeker said that writing the storyline might help. Maybe writing the storyline would help us understand what HALOS is, and by understanding what HALOS is we might be able to guess what the name might be.
In the first gateway puzzle (Code D message) the key was “laseroptroniclinearinducercannon” (“Laser Optronic Linear Inducer Cannon”). The key seemed to be directly related to the contents of the coded message itself (since the message mentioned the “Laser Optronic Linear Inducer Array”). Could this be the case in the current gateway puzzle as well? Can we figure out the key by making assumptions about what the coded message is about?
stormseeker wrote: “There is an answer, but you can’t brute force it, the CIA couldn’t brute force it.” Could CIA be code for “C AI” as in “see AI”, meaning “take a closer look at HALOS”? (I’m probably reaching here.)
If the key really is HALOS spelled-out in its full form, then I’m wondering if some or all of the words/terms, or hints of them, that make up HALOS, can be found scattered around in the clues. For instance, I note that the word “hyper-” is used several times in the PM 0418/Code/Storm sent to Gunsrequiem.
However, this idea only makes sense if the message was encrypted with something like OpenSSL where the password/passphrase can be of arbitrary length, since a name such as “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Operating System” is longer than most encryption keys used with block ciphers.
So far, these are the only names that I could find that have been suggested in the thread so far:
[INDENT]Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Operating System
Human Analog Logistical Operating System
[/INDENT]
Maybe we need to be more creative and try names like:
[INDENT]Hyper-heuristic Algorithm Linear Optronic Sentience
Hyper-Autonomous non-Linear Optronic Sentience
Hyper-Artificial Life Optimization System[/INDENT]
(should probably try both with and without the hyphens)
Maybe the name has nothing to do with artificial intelligence:
[INDENT]Hyper-Accelerated Lepton Optronic Synchrotron
Highly Automated Laser Optronic System[/INDENT]
Or something crazy like:
Hyperspatial Axis modulation via Laser Optronic Sequencing
These are just a few I can think of right now.
Thanks. I’ll delete my post to prevent furthur derailing…
I ran a fourm search and found nothing, I swear.
Well, there are probably a few things that have been discussed in the thread that are missing from the wiki. The fact is, there aren’t many active editors left on the wiki. Most of the guys who set up the wiki and kept it up to date in the early days of the ARG seem to have left or moved on. I started editing a few pages back in December, added a few bits and pieces of information here and there, and corrected a few minor errors and have tried to improve formatting. I also wrote the pages about BMRF.us and DALsystems, but I haven’t (yet) updated the BMRF.us page with information like the iranenvex thing and the fact that the lambda ASCII art seemed to originate from another ARG called “The Black Mesa Incident ARG” (mentioned recently).
Also what’s missing from the wiki are links to or a page detailing the clues that have appeared on the wiki itself. Here are direct links to these clues:
Tempus Omnia Revelant
Tau Cannon message (in the comments section of the page)
The Tempus clue is briefly mentioned on the 752 Hex Code page, but a summary of what has been found out about the various things found on the page (like translations of the Latin phrases) is not on the wiki.
Awesome. Thanks for the update! I was not terribly keen on reading through the entire thread, and getting lost in all of the dead ends, so I was glad to see there was a wiki I could use to just get the relevant information.
I think I’m going to start paying attention to this… I (unfortunately) do not know much about encryption besides the stuff I learned in math class, but I want to be able to jump in if I feel I can contribute something useful. 
At this point it is probably more important to interpret the information we have and search for a possible password, than to know a lot about cryptography, besides, I do not know practically anything about cryptography, but if you know how to use a terminal, how to install software and run a scrypt, you’re pretty much set to test passwords
Still, “I… C an’t S trictily M emorise that, no >_>” is nowhere to be found on his steam profile, at least not in the comments.
That’s a neat idea. I’ve tried them all with and without hyphens, with and without spaces, except Hyperspatial Axis modulation via Laser Optronic Sequencing, it’s just too crazy
We have the same problem as always, there isn’t solid ground where we could stand.
HALOS probably is HAL Operating System. We know it is an AI or AI related at least, “he’s AI” and all that, it could be something else, but we’re in the dark, it would be impossible to determine the real meaning if we have to guess it blindly.
About the password being related to the content of the message… I had thought of that, but ditched it since we do not even know who sent the message, I was assuming that the message where the code is was sent by HALOS, but the 752 Code could have been sent by anyone and intercepted later by HALOS.
Good to know! I can program, so I should be able to figure out how to run a terminal.
I’ll also try and think of key ideas.
Is it possible for someone to create an entry on the wiki (or elsewhere) with encryption keys we’ve already tried? Or does something like that already exist?
(That aforementioned “someone”, could very well end up being me. I’m just seeing if anyone else is interested, as I have other matters to attend to before I can attempt something like that.)
It looks like he deleted the comment after it was mentioned on the forum, which probably means it had nothing to do with the ARG.
Yeah, that’s what is seems, terminator as a clue didn’t make much sense if you think about it. He probably meant that we should focus on the AI. Still, is really hard to tell if he’s trying to help, the “How do you know this has anything to do with encryption?” and the messages he sent to Guns are not helpful at all. As Code_/0418 he gave some useful clues in regards to the Code D, but not in a direct way. He said specifically that the theories on the whiteboards were not ARG related, but after the Code D was solved he said that we should try to find how the theories on the whiteboards, the niobium and the AI related to each other. Maybe when he created this puzzle, afted Code D was solved, he used one of the theories as the password?
Checking on his forum account to read everything he has written, I found two weird things
[INDENT]
Stormseeker talking about his webpage, 5th of January 2011:
Not really got round to it yet, last thing I added was the Konami code to it. Planning on sorting it out soon…ish tho.[/INDENT]
Some guy posted this:
QE: Guide Signs Confused. Hi, I don’t know if this was already reported, this signs are confused, I don’t think this is intended.Maybe there are more confused maps, textures, signs et cetera?.. Right Lab D, left lab D or C? Lab D is lab C and lab B is lab D?
So, he started planning the ARG a long time ago, at least parts of it. And I don’t know why, but when he says “Map is a known issue” I get that he means “Map issue is intentional”
By the way, stormseeker hasn’t logged to the forums till the eighth of this month, is that usual?
About the list of passwords, well, if somebody makes it I’ll add mine, but I think we are just five or six trying to decrypt the code, and probably the list each one has is pretty similar, so it shouldn’t be a lot of work for each one of us to add it to the page. What would be interesting is knowing which algorithms, modes and digests is each one of us using. I’m basicaly using the script posted by Faed, I only added whirpool as digest. Also used the c++11 code posted by pointless, but I cannot get it to use SHA3, there’s some problem with the libraries that I could not solve, so I’m using just the script right now.
EDIT: I was trying to use Lucifer cipher, but there doesn’t seem to be any software capable of decripting it. I downloaded the source code of a C implementation of the so called Sorkin variant, it don’t know if it will work, due to the block size and the cipher not working on stream mode, on the plus side it does not require initialization vector, it just has one mode of operation. We also should look into PRESENT algorithm, due to its name, is relatively new, made in 2007, but its the standar for lightweight cryptography and has 64bits blocks.
Found this on the Facebook page. What does this mean?
Jorge Luis Negrete Climent
Very interesting, decodes a radio signal that is located in the chapter: Questionable ethics, and gave me an image of a document.